Wendelstein Observatory control software

Claus Gössl; Jan Snigula; Mihael Kodric; Arno Riffeser; Tobias Munzert

doi:10.1117/12.2055879

18 July 2014 Wendelstein Observatory control software

Claus Gössl, Jan Snigula, Mihael Kodric, Arno Riffeser, Tobias Munzert

Proceedings Volume 9152, Software and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy III; 91520H (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2055879
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2014, Montréal, Quebec, Canada

Abstract

LMU München operates an astrophysical observatory on Mt. Wendelstein¹ which has been equipped with a modern 2m-class telescope^{2, 3} recently. The new Fraunhofer telescope has started science operations in autumn 2013 with a 64 Mpixel, 0:5 x 0:5 square degree FoV wide field camera,⁴ and will successively be equipped with a 3 channel optical/NIR camera⁵ and 2 fibre coupled spectrographs (IFU spectrograph VIRUSW⁶ already in operation at the 2.7 McDonald, Texas and an upgraded Echelle spectrograph FOCES^{7, 8}formerly operated at Calar Alto oberservatory, Spain). All instruments will be mounted simultaneously and can be activated within a minute. The observatory also operates a small 40cm telescope with a CCD-camera and a simple fibre coupled spectrograph for students lab and photometric monitoring as well as a large number of support equipment like a meteo station, allsky cameras, a multitude of webcams, in addition to a complex building control system environment. Here we describe the ongoing effort to build a centralised controlling interface for all hardware. This includes remote/robotic operation, visualisation via web browser technologies, and data processing and archiving.

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Claus Gössl, Jan Snigula, Mihael Kodric, Arno Riffeser, and Tobias Munzert "Wendelstein Observatory control software", Proc. SPIE 9152, Software and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy III, 91520H (18 July 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2055879

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